"Peasant Woman with Buckets and Child" (1912)
Kazimir Malevich
(1878-1935) was perhaps the most fertile andinfluential
of the Russian post-symbolist visual artists. In the period
1909-1912, he, like Larionov and Goncharova concentrated
on peasant scenes (he had grown up in the rural Ukraine),
rendered in a heavy, primitivist style. In "Peasant Woman
with Buckets and Child" (1912) Malevich's palate and the
angularity of his faces recall the work of Paul Gauguin,
but the grotesque poses and weighty bodies take primitivism
even further.